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Boydell Press, Date: 2007 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. Index. xx, 374 pp.. 2007. Boydell Press ISBN 1843833077 9781843833079 [CA]
ISBN10: 1843833077, ISBN13: 9781843833079, [publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom, Woodbridge] Softcover The Domesday Book is one of our major sources for a crucial period of English history; yet it remains difficult to interpret. This provocative new book proposes a complete re-assessment, with profound implications for our understanding of the society and economy of medieval England. In particular, it overturns the general assumption that the Domesday inquest was a comprehensive survey of lords and their lands, and so tells us about the economic underpinning of power in the late eleventh century; rather, it suggests that in 1086 matters of taxation and service were at issue and data were collected to illuminate these concerns. What emerges from this is that Domesday Book tells us less about a real economy and those who sustained it than a tributary one, with much of the wealth of England being omitted. The source, then, is not the transparent datum that social and economic historians would like it to be. Inreturn, however, the book offers a richer understanding of late eleventh-century England in its own terms; and elucidates many long-standing conundrums of the Domesday Book itself. DAVID ROFFE is an honorary research fellow at Sheffield University. He has written widely on Domesday Book and edited five volumes of the Alecto County Edition of the text. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or h ...
ISBN10: 1843833077, ISBN13: 9781843833079, [publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom, Woodbridge] Softcover The Domesday Book is one of our major sources for a crucial period of English history; yet it remains difficult to interpret. This provocative new book proposes a complete re-assessment, with profound implications for our understanding of the society and economy of medieval England. In particular, it overturns the general assumption that the Domesday inquest was a comprehensive survey of lords and their lands, and so tells us about the economic underpinning of power in the late eleventh century; rather, it suggests that in 1086 matters of taxation and service were at issue and data were collected to illuminate these concerns. What emerges from this is that Domesday Book tells us less about a real economy and those who sustained it than a tributary one, with much of the wealth of England being omitted. The source, then, is not the transparent datum that social and economic historians would like it to be. Inreturn, however, the book offers a richer understanding of late eleventh-century England in its own terms; and elucidates many long-standing conundrums of the Domesday Book itself. DAVID ROFFE is an honorary research fellow at Sheffield University. He has written widely on Domesday Book and edited five volumes of the Alecto County Edition of the text. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or h ...
ISBN10: 1843833077, ISBN13: 9781843833079, [publisher: Boydell Press, Woodbridge] Hardcover First Edition Lightly worn copy. [Wigtown, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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